“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss February was interesting. We …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – January 2021
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips of daffodils start up toward the growing Sun. Something in us stirs …
The Essence of Green for 2020-2021 Transition
Farewell, 2020. Part of me want’s to leave that there and just jump to 2021, but 2020 was a big year for my personal development – mostly in the last 3 months of the year, but it all counts. Also, …
My Own Rooted Reinvention
Well. The last few years have been… interesting. I haven’t been consistent here since Jan 2019. I haven’t been a WRITER (in my own eyes) since before then. This is clear from my weekly posts dropping down to 18 in …
Social Isolation and Exploring Priorities
Hai. Long time no see. Things have been so interesting, and mostly… slow. I’m really trying to balance my priorities, and it’s definitely a harder set of decisions to make in the midst of all this worldwide anxiety. This week …
A Review and Plans for 2020
I’ve hesitated to write and post this, because 2019 was not a great writing year. I wrote 51,173 words, which is the lowest for nearly a decade. This may also explain, at least in some part, why I’ve gone from …